Posted on 12/14/2019 1:15:45 PM PST by ransomnote
An Alexandria, Virginia, tax lobbyist was sentenced to one year in prison today for willfully filing a false tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the Eastern District of Virginia.
According to court documents, attorney James F. Miller, 67, underreported his gross income on his 2010 through 2014 tax returns by more than $2.2 million. Miller, a tax policy lobbyist and former employee of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, filed multiple false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). These returns omitted partnership income he received from two law firms and the gross receipts he received from his own lobbying firm. The total tax loss resulting from Miller’s fraudulent conduct was more than $730,000.
In addition to the term of imprisonment, U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, ordered Miller to serve one year of supervised release and to pay restitution to the United States in the amount of $735,933.
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Zuckerman and U.S. Attorney Terwilliger commended agents of IRS-Criminal Investigation, who conducted the investigation, and Assistant United State Attorney Ryan S. Faulconer from the Eastern District of Virginia and Trial Attorney Terri-Lei O’Malley of the Tax Division, who prosecuted the case.
Additional information about the Tax Division’s enforcement efforts can be found on the division’s website.
Sentence includes $275K restitution
In addition to the term of imprisonment, U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, ordered Miller to serve one year of supervised release and to pay restitution to the United States in the amount of $735,933.
But what's a half mil among friends? ;)
This is your 4th such posting.
Hopefully none of these will tarnish Obama’s scandal free 8 years.
More seriously, do you think these are a result of a President Trump crackdown? I sure hope so, then there will be many more to come.
More seriously, do you think these are a result of a President Trump crackdown?
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Yes. Note the years identified 2010 -2014. President Trump’s administration is going back that far. There are other tax preparer fraud cases which I’ve seen and not posted. MAGA!
More seriously, do you think these are a result of a President Trump crackdown?
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I think it’s safe to say that POTUS has his administration auditing the prior admin because of the billions of dollars that are unaccounted for.
The Fed Gov under evil presidents typically donates massive amounts of foreign aid to countries who then funnel it back into the United States, often into the personal foundations of people like the Clintons, McCain etc. That’s why the traitors in congress have net worth values in the millions or more - kickbacks, slush funds.
To track it all, President Trump would have to audit system wide.
Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General issued an indictment against Burisma owner Nikolai Zlochevsky According to Ukrainian MP Alexander Dubinsky of the ruling Servant of the People Party, Hunter Biden and his partners received $16.5 million for their ‘services’. This was how the traitors in our government got rich beyond their means during Obama, Clinton, Bush(s) etc.
Only way to find this kind of corruption is thorough audit, and along the way, all these lower watt criminals pop up. This tax prep guy probably calculated the taxes of other criminals, possibly in gov, to help hide such things. Pull a thread, etc....
ONE YEAR for stealing all that money, especially if you are a democrat...
...or if your name is Martha Stewart and you slightly did something appearing to be the same thing congress critters permit themselves to do every day, namely, benefit in investments from their inside knowledge...
FORTY YEARS (ie, “life”) if you pay “donations” (and still pay the high inflated tuition) to get your kid a possiblly newly minted spot in the college she wants...
Fair? Consider...
(1) Greater sentence for the first.
(2) For the second, make insider trading for congress critters illegal and with WORSE penalties than for other people. And diverting money from our US treasury to foreign countries and the sneakily back to politician controlled “foundations” should be severely punished.
(3) For misguided hyper parents, make the penalties FAIR for their silly pay to play machinations at private colleges — it is not a crime worthy of prolonged jail time!
When you sign a return you waive your Constitutional rights. But if you don’t sign the return you will go to prison.
Seems hard to understand how being forced tot sign a return is legal.
Anyhow. If you knowingly sign a false return you are in essence making a false sworn statement, and that is a felony.
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